French cardinal found guilty of covering up sexual abuse

Philippe Barbarin handed six-month suspended sentence after surprise verdict

A French court has convicted the Roman Catholic archbishop of Lyon of failing to act on historic allegations of sexual abuse of boy scouts in his diocese.

Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, the highest-profile cleric to be caught up in the child sexual abuse scandal inside the Catholic Church in France, was handed a six-month suspended jail sentence.

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